VELIKA REMETA MONASTERY: Serbia. In the former Yugoslavia and former USSR, the sudden failure of the official atheist communist ideology left people in trouble. The communist regime usually fought the Church (and other religions), even though they used to call upon her at very critical moments. In 1943, Stalin himself enrolled the Russian Orthodox Church to motivate people to fight the Nazi Germans. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Orthodox Church became a kind of national landmark in many countries. In Serbia, she played an important role during the Balkan Wars in the 90’s, sanctifying the fight against the Bosnian Muslims and then the Kosova Albanians, resurrecting the “Holy War”. Some Serbian war criminals were protected, sheltered, and hidden in Orthodox monasteries.

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